double consciousness refers to the sometimes vexing state of being black and American. According to W. E. B. DuBois, who coined the phrase, "It
is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of
always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring
one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and
pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two
thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark
body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
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